This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UNF.2ACIB/78.86.88.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Abraham Jones b. ca 1797 d. September 29, 1871 was married to Celia Allred b. July 30, 1793. Here is what I know of their daughter Faithy: It has been reported on Family Search and other web sites that Noah Bost's first wife was a Jones (first name unknown). No one knows for sure what her name was and the Jones name probably came from the fact that he was married for "one night" to Faithy A. Jones, daughter of Abraham and Celey (Allred) Jones, after the death of his first wife. If his first wife was a Jones, she was brobably a sister of Abraham Jones. Abraham Jones named his daughter Alice after Noah's mother and Noah named his daughter Celia after Abraham's wife. Then Abraham named his son Noah Bost Jones. No one has any idea as to the real connection between Noah Bost and Abraham Jones. (information provided by Brad Walker, geneaologist at the Magness Memorial Library, McMinnville, TN and ggg grandson of Abigail Moffitt and William Coppinger.) From "Tennessee Tidbits 1778-1914," Vol. III, by Marjorie Hood Fischer and Ruth Blake Burns: Boss, Noah -- was granted a divorce from Faithly Boss on 29 September 1855 for disertion. They were (married) in 1840 or 1841). They lived together about four months when she left him and refused to return. (War TN, Ch Ct Min,2/111) As to William Bost Whitman - I don’t have the foggiest idea of how he came to be entered in the Jones Bible. William was the son of Celey A. Bost (Dau of Noah Bost) and Edward Whitman. They were married on September 07, 1854 in Warren Co., TN. I believe Celey died upon William’s birth of shortly thereafter because on April 05, 1856 Edward married Celey’s cousin Martha C. Bost in Grundy Co., TN. What happened to Edward and William Whitman is a mystery to me for the 1860 census shows Martha living alone with her 5 year old son by her first husband. - James Hill